Words
Names
Expressions
Symbols
Dialects
Vocabularies
Parts of speech
Roots
Derivatives
Proverbs
Toponymy
Dictionaries
Grammars
Articles
Plates and Tables
Illustrations
Bibliography
Webliography
Home Page
Contributors
Inquiries
Changes
|
|
|
|
abstinence
fady
abstinence
, fasting, prohibition; unlawfulness, incest; anything tabooed. It often takes an accusative case, as: fady ahy izany. Faly is used in the provinces. [comp. Swa. fali, an omen.]
[
Richardson 1885
]
faratra
abstinence
prescribed by a doctor to convalescents; a preventive; regimen, as not to eat beef, not to go in the sun, etc. See
[
Richardson 1885
]